Equality Quotes - Page 20

• Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Democracy, Conviction, Unshakable

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• I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

  Dian Fossey

  Animal, People, Feelings

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• You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

  Bono

  Commitment, Ideas, Justice

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• What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Reality, House, Needs

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• It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

  Herodotus

  Freedom Of Speech, Way, Good Things

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• Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the white and colored people in America, to develop side by side in peace and mutual happiness, the peculiar contribution which each has to make to the culture of their common country.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Inspiring, Country, Religious

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.61, Oxford University Press

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• Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Lying, Hype, Political

  "The Red Association" by Mikhail Bakunin, www.marxists.org. 1870.

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• The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

  Eric Berne

  Nature, Boys, Birds Wings

  ERIC BERNE, M.D. (1964). “GAMES PEOPLE PLAY”

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• Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

  Socrates

  Philosophical, Sisterhood, Men

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• I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there

  Connie Chung

  Men, Thinking, Ugly

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• . . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.

  Nathaniel Altman

  Nature, Responsibility, Animal

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• A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.223, Courier Corporation

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• I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Husband, Work, Ideas

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• I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

  Thomas Paine

  Change, Freedom, Men

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.222, Ravenio Books

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• To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Country, Party, Years

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• Nothing is so unequal as equality.

  Pliny the Elder

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• I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

  Paul Newman

  Inspiring, Kids, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Humanity, Skins

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.290, Penguin

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• Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

  Josephine Baker

  Mean, Men, Color

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• Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Opportunity, Men, Effort

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1920). “The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man”

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• Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

  Mary McCarthy

  Somewhere Else, Agendas, Undesirable

  Mary McCarthy (2017). “Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979”, p.421, Library of America

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• The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.

  Evan Esar

  Cemetery

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• I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Stupid, Believe

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• We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of getting equal pay. But we haven't yet established the principle (much less the fact) that men can and should do 'women's jobs': that homemaking and child-rearing are as much a man's responsibility, too, and that those jobs in which women are concentrated outside the home would probably be better paid if more men became secretaries, file clerks, and nurses, too.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Home

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• Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Men, Sight, Soul

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1939). “Song of Years”

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